[PATCH 3/3] mtd: parsers: ofpart: support BCM4908 fixed partitions

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Tue Jan 19 10:51:38 EST 2021


Hi Rafał,

Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote on Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:39:01
+0100:

> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
> 
> BCM4908 partitioning is based on fixed layout but allows specifying
> multiple firmware partitions. It requires detecting which firmware
> partition was used for booting current kernel.
> 
> To support such cases without duplicating a lot of code (without copying
> most of the ofpart.c code) support for post-parsing callback was added.
> 
> BCM4908 callback simply reads offset of currently used firmware
> partition from the DT. Bootloader specifies it using the "brcm_blparms"
> property.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>

The approach looks fine by me, let's see what other maintainers think.


Cheers,
Miquèl



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